Aug 24th at Agile 2009: What Makes Agile Ours? (Panel)

Aaron Sanders is moderating the panel discussion "What Makes This Agile Ours? A Talk with Previous Gordon Pask Award Winners" at 11:00am on the Leadership & Teams stage of Agile 2009. I'll be there, as will Bob Payne, Arlo Belshee, Steve Freeman, Kenji Hiranabe, Laurent Bossavit, J. B. Rainsberger, and Jeff Patton. The panel has a neat iterative structure and should be a lot of fun.

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Aug 27th at Agile 2009: The Agile CTO (Workshop)

Diana Larsen and I are building on our CTO research to present "The Agile CTO" at Agile 2009. In this session, we'll be working with executives with Agile experience to discover and document patterns for Agile executives to use.

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Aug 27th at Agile 2009: Agile Metrics (Presentation)

I've teamed up with my buddy Rob Myers to deliver "Metrics in an Agile World" at 11:00am Thursday on the Leadership & Teams stage of Agile 2009. We're going to be looking at how metrics work with Agile, which ones are appropriate, and pitfalls to avoid.

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Aug 27th at Agile 2009: Replacing End-to-End Testing (Workshop)

Arlo Belshee and I are delivering "Slow and Brittle: Replacing End-to-End Testing" at 4:00pm Thursday on the Testing stage of Agile 2009. This should be a fun session: we're asking gurus to join us in a workshop format to figure out alternatives to end-to-end tests.

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Monthly in Portland, Oregon: Come Hang With the Agilists (Lunch)

The local Portland Agile community gets together every first Friday to eat, drink, and make merry. Oh, and sometimes we talk about agile stuff, too. Come join us! I don't always attend, but I come to as many sessions as my schedule permits. You can find us at the Broadway McMenamins (on the corner of NE Broadway and 15th) on the first Friday of every month at 1:00pm.